The Period of RFFSA

Old EFCB bridge over São Francisco river. Photo by Alexandre Almeida


In the sixties RFFSA gave continuity to the project of prolonging the line of Pirapora heading for Goiás. The infrastructure works were built to the place of Paredão de Minas, MG. Bridges, cuts and great embankments were built, but again the plans changed and the works were paralyzed. There is said that part of the line got to operate, but it was removed later. Letters of navigation of USAF show the line built even to Paredão de Minas, as old railway men of the area told me.
In the eighties RFFSA stopped crossing the bridge over San Francisco river and it moved the end of the line again for Pirapora. Still in the eighties the branch began to be abandoned gradually, until that in 1996 FCA assumed the mesh of the old Central and it closed the branch once and for all.